Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way , except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us . |
| 2 | And Vivienne kept telling me , I should have stayed on just for the grant . |
| 3 | Indeed , it must have occurred on just one of those summer evenings she mentions , for I can recall distinctly climbing to the second landing and seeing before me a series of orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom of the corridor where each bedroom door stood ajar . |
| 4 | Except ‘ Three Little Birds ’ , which , although it might have sounded like just a jolly little song , was , in fact , a metaphorical indictment of the whole superpower system . |
| 5 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 6 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 7 | Dr Jane Teas , of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston , Massachusetts , believes that AIDS could have originated with just one Haitian homosexual eating infected pork . |
| 8 | If they had agreed a price the deal would have gone through just as SMS found itself in so much trouble with Volvo [ SMS was forced to resign the $40m Volvo account in early 1991 , after it was discovered the agency was rigging performance advertisements ] . |
| 9 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 10 | At the Manor Ground the crowd would have settled for just one goal ; the 0-0 scoreline does the game justice . |
| 11 | Only 40% of the world 's potential arable land was in use in 1975 , and that will have increased to just 50% in 2000 . |